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William Sedric Autrey gave a jailhouse interview after his 2010 arrest for a home-invasion robbery. (G.J. McCarthy/DMN file photo)

After making a deal with prosecutors to testify against his burglary partners in 2008, William Sedric Autrey was back to his old ways two years later.

Autrey was convicted Friday of a 2010 home invasion in which he and another man tied up a 15-year-old girl and held her at gunpoint before robbing her parents’ home, according to testimony. He wore a Halloween goblin mask during the robbery.

The punishment phase of the trial continues today, and prosecutors are presenting evidence of several new and old cases that police say are linked to Autrey.

A Dallas County jury heard testimony this morning linking the man to a string of burglaries at homes near a Plano golf course.

Witnesses testified this morning that the glass from the back doors of their homes were shattered and their closets and master bedrooms “were upside down,” testified Alka Gupta. Her home was broken into while she and her husband were at a party in April 2010. Jewelry and coins from India were missing, as well as her $11,000 Burkin bag.

Police eventually recovered many items, but not everything, Gupta said.

During that month, according to police, Plano officers spotted Autrey’s black Escalade parked near an Irving golf course, reported our Jennifer Emily Friday. The department notified Irving police officers, who stopped the car and found stolen jewelry, radios, police batons and two guns. They also found the goblin mask.

Testimony continues this afternoon before State District Judge Lena Levario.

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